What's new
Every Readuet release, newest first. The app updates itself through the App Store and Google Play.
Podcasts you can read along with
Version 1.7.0 ·
- Podcasts: find shows in your language, follow them and listen to any episode; on Duet, read along as you listen.
- The Library has a Podcasts shelf: episodes grouped by show, with the time left in each.
- Audiobooks and podcast episodes now open within seconds; the rest of the text arrives as you listen.
- Today's story reads like a book: turn pages instead of scrolling, in your book's font and size.
- Fixed transcripts skipping sentences: no more speech missing from the text.
Notes, coloured word levels, and no sign-up needed
Version 1.6.0 ·
- Hold a sentence to select it, then play from there, copy it or save it as a note; notes are listed under Words.
- Saved words are coloured by level, green for easy to purple for hard, and fade as you learn them.
- Read the free books without an account; sign up later and keep your books, progress and words.
- Progress shows the books you've read this year, with a yearly goal.
- Plus nested chapter lists, sharper translations, fuller pages and a fix for an iPhone crash at launch.
Undo your jumps, and truer word levels
Version 1.5.0 ·
- Jump to a chapter or the end and step straight back — the reader remembers where you were.
- The word card now explains the grammar of the form you tapped.
- Word levels now reflect how common a word really is.
- The reading bar shows progress, time left in the chapter, the clock and battery.
- Reading and listening use less battery, plus many fixes across translations and uploads.
Idioms are learnt as whole phrases
Version 1.4.0 ·
- Idioms are now learnt whole: the phrase highlights and comes up for review as one thing, not loose words.
- Highlighted words now appear the moment a book opens, and stay visible when you are offline.
- Fixed: tapping a word inside an idiom no longer shows you the meaning of the word next to it.
- Fixed: a book no longer counts as finished a few pages early, and the percentage follows you when you page back.
Chapter lists that match the book
Version 1.3.1 ·
- Chapters in EPUB books now match the book's own table of contents, so the chapter list is complete and correctly named.
- Anthologies that used to open as a few two-hour chapters now split where the author did.
- A damaged or wrong ebook file is now caught the moment you pick it, instead of failing minutes into the upload.
Your settings follow you between devices
Version 1.3.0 ·
- Playback speed, theme, font and your other settings now follow your account instead of staying on one device.
- Books are marked finished when you reach the end — or by hand, from the book's menu — and show 100% in your library.
- While listening, you can see how much of the book is left, counted at the speed you are actually playing it.
Words keep every meaning you look up
Version 1.2.0 ·
- Words with more than one meaning keep them all, and the word sheet shows each one with the sentence it came from.
- The plans screen now compares Free, Solo and Duet side by side, and Settings names the plan you are actually on.
- Fixed: two accounts on the same device no longer share reading positions, vocabulary or settings.
- The notice about sentence highlighting can be dismissed, and stays gone.
Free library books read along on every plan
Version 1.1.0 ·
- Books from the free library now highlight in time with the narration on every plan, not only the ones you upload yourself.
- After listening on headphones, opening the book puts you where you actually stopped instead of where you last read.
- Press play while browsing a page and the narration moves to the sentence in front of you.
- Finding your place after a pause takes a few seconds now, not half a minute.
Your place survives listening offline
Version 1.0.1 ·
- Fixed: a stretch of listening without a connection no longer disappears. When you come back online, the spot you actually reached is the one that's kept — even if another device checked in while you were away.
- The diagnostics you can copy from Settings now include the previous session, so a problem that ends with the app closing leaves something to go on.
Read while you listen, in sync to the sentence
Version 1.0.0 ·
- Play an audiobook while you read the matching ebook — the sentence you're hearing is the one that's lit.
- Tap any word for a translation in context. Keep it, and it comes back for review right before you'd forget it.
- Start with a free library of classics, narration included, or bring your own EPUB and MP3s.
- Your place follows you between devices, and stays in step with KOReader.
The first tracked release
Version 0.1.0 ·
- Read an ebook while its audiobook plays — the words highlight in sync with the narrator.
- Tap any word for a translation, save it, and review your saved words with spaced repetition.
- Add a book from the free public-domain catalog, or upload your own ebook and audiobook.
- Keep your place across devices, including KOReader and a Kindle.